Saudade /

A dark Psychological drama. Exploring Alice's fractured mind and her search for what lays within her long buried memories. Alice becomes lost within the memories she aches for opening the door to her hidden self.

Saudade / 2022

Mike, a young adult, waiting to go out on a date with his boyfriend is thwarted by a life-changing event. It is told from the perspective of his mirror.

Saudade / 2014

Alex, a photographer, is missing an important photo from his collection. He uses a "memory machine", a contraption that allows a user to relive a specific point in time in their life, to go back to the day he lost it--the same day as his breakup with his girlfriend Sofia.

Saudade / 2017

Saudade / 2023

The Ballroom / 2007

An evening in an old time dance hall in Sao Paulo introduces us to local characters who reminisce about the past, wonder about the future, have fun, flirt, fight and, of course, dance. Its earthy humour and eternal themes of ageing, loneliness and desire is an antidote to grumpy old men and women everywhere.

Hotel Saudade / 2004

In the style of a Chris Marker essay film, Hotel Saudade follows Bailey on a journey to Brazil. Prompted by a failed love and a disturbing pursuit of danger, this film critic picks up a camera and goes looking for a picture - a picture of the woman he loved, a picture of an accident, a self-portrait.

Imensa Saudade / 2018

Documentary by Rui Simões, which celebrates the 20th anniversary of Expo 98, one of the biggest exhibitions that Portugal hosted

Ma Saudade /

Summer 1998. Simon, ten years old, shut himself up in silence following the death of his mother. While everyone lives to the rhythm of the Football World Cup, Simon spends his days in front of the TV watching VHS. His solitary daily life is trown into turmoil the day Helena rings at this door.

Enclosure / 2019

Through scenes of a repeating and limited daily routine, we get to know upfront the reality of marginalized women way before they were emprisioned. Saudade Mundão is a movie about human beings that takes place on the public jail of Franca, São Paulo.

Canção da Saudade / 1964

Leonel is a pianist, nostalgic of sweet melodies, while his son is the (real-life) leader of Os Gatos Pretos (black cats), a twist musical group. The conflict is eventu ally solved when Leonel's daughter, Cilinha, starts dating Raúl, a well-off young man, who promote a new dancing club, the Lisboa Antiga e Moderna, where old new music get even shares.

With love, I miss you / 2023

Clara hides that she is in love with her best friend, Sofia, who is moving abroad. During a meeting to say goodbye, Clara makes a discovery.

Takanaka – Super Live 2022 - Saudade 40th Anniversary / 2023

2022 marks 40 years since the release of the album “SAUDADE” (September 1982). With producer Narada Michael Walden and guest appearances by T.M. Stevens and Sheila E, this is a masterpiece of fusion that topped the album charts at the time.

O que é saudade? / 2022

Saudade is a word and a feeling that exists only in the Portuguese language, but what is saudade? A feeling, a memory or several memories, a question, what is it?

Alameda da Saudade, 113 / 1952

Saudade do Futuro / 2021

Portugal, Brazil and Cape Verde. Countries linked by the sea and the culture of nostalgia. The film travels across three continents and finds characters marked by absences produced by events that transform the history of these countries. Like fascism, colonization, slavery, dictatorships and leaving never to return. The culture of saudade is the thread that connects conversations by the sea.

Saudade dos Leões / 2021

In the midst of a pandemic scenario, the festive culture of Fortaleza faces obstacles to remain resplendent, which takes us to Praça dos Leões. How is the Lions Cultural Bar? How to deal with the absence of new memories? How to deal with silence? Saudades dos Leões is a documentary that seeks to invoke the memory of this space and rescue moments of joy and cultural relevance in the lives of its audience, mostly LGBTQI+. Furthermore, it talks about its silence and how the lack of this symbolic space weighs on people's history.

Saudade do Futuro / 2000

Records the sights and sounds of the many extraordinary street musicians from the Northeast of Brazil whose music and lyrics tell the stories of their lives with improvised humor, drama and colorful vulgarisms.

Saudade, talvez… / 2024

José-Manuel Barata Xavier reflects on his old childhood bathtub.

SAUDADE / 2023

“Saudade” portrays the intimate relationship between Portugal and Cuba, two cultures that are both geographically separated and inextricably linked by the ocean. Visual art and performance merge to express the grounding presence of the earth and its capacity to help us understand our shared humanity across distances. The film asks: What is recorded in the land of the one who leaves for the sea? What does it mean to leave one place and arrive in another, greeting a new land while carrying the old?